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Putin is testing Europe. How far will he go before war?
It’s always been a cop-out to blame the sinister influence of Vladimir Putin for the failings of liberal democracy. There…
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Trump’s weird war against the states
Throughout Donald Trump’s presidency, he hasn’t tried to hide the fact that he holds Americans who didn’t vote for him…
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“Idiocracy” is still a worthless artifact 20 years later
Mike Judge has always had a soft spot for dimwits. Beavis and Butt-head might leave chaos and destruction in their…
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My library card has saved me $1,330 — and I want more
In June, I became briefly preoccupied with the question of what kind of reader I intended to be that summer.…
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Harry Styles is the antidote to MAGA’s counterfeit masculinity
I walked into Manhattan’s Rawhide one night with four blond supermodels on my arm, and we danced until we were…
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Isaac Mizrahi’s “Unzipped” shows why flawed artists matter
On a cold November morning, designer Isaac Mizrahi gets up, leaves his apartment, and trudges to the corner newsstand to…
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Samuel Alito is complicit in climate disaster
Thanks to his majority opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which destroyed the constitutional right to abortion in…
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